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The task of steel surface defect recognition is an industrial problem with great industry values. The data insufficiency is the major challenge in training a robust defect recognition network. Existing methods have investigated to enlarge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yichun Tai , Kun Yang , Tao Peng , Zhenzhen Huang , Zhijiang Zhang

We propose regularization strategies for learning discriminative models that are robust to in-class variations of the input data. We use the Wasserstein-2 geometry to capture semantically meaningful neighborhoods in the space of images, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Alex Tong Lin , Yonatan Dukler , Wuchen Li , Guido Montufar

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) suffer from inefficient inference due to their slow sampling and high memory consumption, which limits their applicability to various medical imaging applications. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Mathews Jacob , Amanda Chang , Kan Liu , Milan Sonka , Xiaodong Wu

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces patient radiation exposure but introduces substantial noise that degrades image quality and hinders diagnostic accuracy. Existing denoising approaches often require many diffusion steps, limiting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Qiang Li , Mojtaba Safari , Shansong Wang , Huiqiao Xie , Jie Ding , Tonghe Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

This paper presents NimbleReg, a light-weight deep-learning (DL) framework for diffeomorphic image registration leveraging surface representation of multiple segmented anatomical regions. Deep learning has revolutionized image registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Antoine Legouhy , Ross Callaghan , Nolah Mazet , Vivien Julienne , Hojjat Azadbakht , Hui Zhang

Generative diffusion models have received increasing attention in medical imaging, particularly in limited-angle computed tomography (LACT). Standard diffusion models achieve high-quality image reconstruction but require a large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Yi Liu , Yiyang Wen , Zekun Zhou , Junqi Ma , Linghang Wang , Yucheng Yao , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

Statistical shape modeling (SSM) is an enabling quantitative tool to study anatomical shapes in various medical applications. However, directly using 3D images in these applications still has a long way to go. Recent deep learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Abu Zahid Bin Aziz , Jadie Adams , Shireen Elhabian

Algorithm unrolling has emerged as a learning-based optimization paradigm that unfolds truncated iterative algorithms in trainable neural-network optimizers. We introduce Stochastic UnRolled Federated learning (SURF), a method that expands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Samar Hadou , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro

Increasing attention is being paid to millimeter-wave (mmWave), 30 GHz to 300 GHz, and terahertz (THz), 300 GHz to 10 THz, sensing applications including security sensing, industrial packaging, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Josiah Smith

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , Chao Ding , Mike Zheng Shou , Ajmal Saeed Mian

The visual models pretrained on large-scale benchmarks encode general knowledge and prove effective in building more powerful representations for downstream tasks. Most existing approaches follow the fine-tuning paradigm, either by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Nan Zhou , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

An active learning algorithm for the classification of high-dimensional images is proposed in which spatially-regularized nonlinear diffusion geometry is used to characterize cluster cores. The proposed method samples from estimated cluster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 James M. Murphy

Accurate deformable 4-dimensional (4D) (3-dimensional in space and time) medical images registration is essential in a variety of medical applications. Deep learning-based methods have recently gained popularity in this area for the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Yunlu Zhang , Xue Wu , H. Michael Gach , Harold Li , Deshan Yang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a critical tool in modern medical diagnostics, yet its prolonged acquisition time remains a critical limitation, especially in time-sensitive clinical scenarios. While undersampling strategies can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Mohammed Alsubaie , Wenxi Liu , Linxia Gu , Ovidiu C. Andronesi , Sirani M. Perera , Xianqi Li

In this work, we address the limitations of denoising diffusion models (DDMs) in image restoration tasks, particularly the shape and color distortions that can compromise image quality. While DDMs have demonstrated a promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Xinlong Cheng , Tiantian Cao , Guoan Cheng , Bangxuan Huang , Xinghan Tian , Ye Wang , Xiaoyu He , Weixin Li , Tianfan Xue , Xuan Dong

Clinical deployment requires segmentation models to stay stable under distribution shifts and perturbations. The mainstream solution is adversarial training (AT) to improve robustness; however, AT often brings a clean--robustness trade-off…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yuting Lu , Ziliang Wang , Weixin Xu , Wei Zhang , Yongqiang Zhao , Yang Yu , Xiaohong Zhang

This work presents TV-LoRA, a novel method for low-dose sparse-view CT reconstruction that combines a diffusion generative prior (NCSN++ with SDE modeling) and multi-regularization constraints, including anisotropic TV and nuclear norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zongyin Deng , Qing Zhou , Yuhao Fang , Zijian Wang , Yao Lu , Ye Zhang , Chun Li

Tracking microsctructural changes in the developing brain relies on accurate inter-subject image registration. However, most methods rely on either structural or diffusion data to learn the spatial correspondences between two or more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Irina Grigorescu , Alena Uus , Daan Christiaens , Lucilio Cordero-Grande , Jana Hutter , A. David Edwards , Joseph V. Hajnal , Marc Modat , Maria Deprez

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable performance of diffusion models in various vision tasks. However, for image restoration that aims to recover clear images with sharper details from given degraded observations, diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Liyan Wang , Qinyu Yang , Cong Wang , Wei Wang , Jinshan Pan , Zhixun Su